Whether you call them sex workers, escorts, call girls, prostitutes, mom, or hookers, they’re each doing a job. Kevin Moore’s “The Hooker Experience” focuses on that business relationship.
Studio: Evil Angel
Director: Kevin Moore
Starring: Kevin Moore, India Summer, Maddy O’Reilly, Gia DiMarco, Jada Stevens
Perhaps it’s true that people can use porn to learn how to have sex (though piledrivers are silly), but it’s rare that erotic interludes teach us something useful. Kevin Moore’s “Hooker Experience” is such a movie, for it teaches us how to be an ally to sex workers.
Moore’s work is distinctive for its workaday excellence. He’s not out to bombard you with feelings and, um, those other things—thoughts—that other pornographers get so hyped about. Instead Moore makes solidly effective and elegant hardcore pornography, mostly featuring himself fucking his talent, a camera in his hand.
“The Hooker Experience” is a 2-disc set in which Moore plays a man named “John” who is a hobbyist—the inside term for men who seek and rate prostitutes on sites like The Erotic Review (TER), a sort of Yelp for hookers in which the escorts post ads but also must deal with an active hobbyist community that keeps them on their toes.
In Moore’s movie the site is the initials of the title, so John meets women through “THE.”
We learn a lot from this movie, or at least the sort of interactions John is used to. Each of the five scenes involves a businesslike but not unfriendly phone transaction, a meeting in a hotel room, an exchange of money, and a sexual encounter that was worth the cash.
John gets up to similar shenanigans with each of his hookers, and they all share a matter-of-fact (but again, not unfriendly) rapport that never shies away from the fact that the women are purchased objects for that hour.
John is always respectful, but he, too, knows that he’s only got an hour and that romance is not on the menu (nor is it what we want to watch, with people like Jada Stevens, Maddy O’Reilly, Yurizan Beltran, and India Summer in the mix)—only a product willingly bought and sold.
I’d be leaving something out if I didn’t also mention Elegant Angel’s great “Portrait of A Call Girl” from 2011, in which Jessie Andrews also negotiates Hollywood hookerdom in a movie that is as often poignant as it is sexy.
Moore’s film is not like that. If there’s poignance, we’re adding that ourselves. Instead we are treated to a very true-to-life snapshot of what being a mid-price escort (the kind you meet in nicer hotel rooms) means; we watch them primp and makeup, ask John all the important (read: money-gathering) questions, and see them deliver the goods to an appreciative John with an efficiency and style that are both long-practiced.
It may not surprise you that some of our most beloved porn stars make a lot of money from escorting, and you can be sure that they all require condoms when they do. How John managed to get in there bareback, then, is the movie’s only credibility gaffe (though I wouldn’t like to watch the alternative, either).
There is also an impressive credit sequence that cleverly and classily serves as exposition.
While you won’t learn much about how hookers’ lives are, or what made John John, you will leave “The Hooker Experience” with the pleasant reassurance that when one pays for sex in America there’s a good chance one’s escort cares enough to do a good job.
Buy “The Hooker Experience” here
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Natalie McLennan—prostitutes provide great return on investment; In the room with sex workers and elephants
See also: Evil Angel
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